Leslie Simpson

In about 1920, Leslie Simpson, a retired American mining engineer and part-time hunter, pioneered a route for motor vehicles from Norak via Barikatabu across the Sand River, and following the northern side of the Kuka Range to a place now known as Klein's Camp, (then called Simpson Springs).

Seven years later [than 1913] the American L. Simpson came in a strange new contraption known as a Model "A" Ford car.

Leslie Simpson, an American hunter, reached Seronora from the north and returned five years later with Stewart Edward White and two other friends. Within three months they had shot fifty-one lions in the Seronera area.

In April and May 1925 Simpson brought Stewart Edward White and two friends along this route [to Seronera], and built a semi-permanent camp somewhere near the spot where the popular Seronera Wildlife Lodge now stands.